Tuesday-5-19-2026

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Casey O Day Radio program Tuesday edition. Glad to have
you along, all right, So had everything cooking. Ah, there
it goes all right on the old next Gen this morning,
and there it goes going to be one of those days. Man,

(00:24):
all right, I'm just gonna since we're on the I'm
we're on the front end of it, so let me
go ahead and acknowledge it. Yes, thank you for the
happy birthday wishes. Appreciate that I would point out that
the grandiose plan to somehow, some way go ahead and
pretend like we're gonna get you know, some sort of

(00:47):
like custom holiday off that has clearly failed. So oh wait,
hold on Boston Paul said something. Don't worry on that story. Okay,
all right, wonderful, Thank you, appreciate that. All right, coming

(01:11):
up on the on the show, Mark Furman has passed away.
Just looking at that this morning. Uh, you know, I
admit I don't know, And this is the kind of
stuff that makes me think I don't know. Clearly, I
wasn't old enough during the oj trial to probably do

(01:36):
proper analysis. Don't know, just you know, somebody, honestly, I
watched the verdict. I don't know how it was where
you guys were ross. I remember watching the Verdict sitting
there in pe class.

Speaker 2 (01:51):
Uh yeah, no, I was in biology class. Okay, yeah,
all right, and mister Rosen was not having it.

Speaker 1 (01:58):
Oh really yeah he was.

Speaker 2 (02:00):
Mister Rosen was amazing because he was like he was
like you ever have like that cool teacher like you think.

Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yeah, his name was mister Mayor where I you know,
in my school.

Speaker 2 (02:08):
But yes, and that doesn't mean he's like, you know,
an incompetent or bad teacher. He was a very good teacher.
But he was very, very chill and funny, and he
was like the cool teacher and he was like, oh
j did that stuff?

Speaker 1 (02:21):
Here was the thing? It was so it was so
throwing as a kid. And here's why, right, I'm I'm
not here to negotiate or debate the whole thing. Well,
actually you know what I am. You guys want to
debate it, let's go. But you have to understand, I
grew up in Wyoming and the concept of this being

(02:48):
an absolute race battle never crossed my mind. And and
and that's because where I grew up we had and
I'm not making this up, we had one black student
my entire seventh grade to senior year in high school,
and that was for a year and a half. His

(03:10):
name was D. I got along with D by the way,
he was on the football teams that running back pretty good.
But there was never that racial component from a black v. White. Now,
for those of you thinking it was just you know,
lily white whatever, it wasn't a huge swath of our

(03:35):
student body, but one we had quite a few Hispanic students,
but more importantly, a huge swath of our student body
was Native American. They were Crow primarily Shoshone, a little
Blackfoot slightly, and so you had that racial component, but

(03:57):
from a different perspective. So I remember sitting there in
pe class. I'm just like, all right, we're doing this thing,
and the ruling happened, and conceptually I'm just like, I
you know, I don't know, but I remember watching the
follow up or it turned into this like giant race war.

(04:20):
That was a new thing for me. So I didn't
know like the you know, the celebration, Oh why are
the black students celebrating? But then I hear these stories. Ross.
I don't know what the makeup of was your biology class,
But did you get that initially or was that like
in the post.

Speaker 2 (04:42):
I mean where I'm from, there's a you know, it's
a there's a big minority community. Like it's right, I mean,
they're just it. It's somebody. But listen, everyone knew that
guy did it and the whole it wasn't a racial
thing until the defense made it a racial thing. Right,

(05:03):
It's a thing they did on purpose. Mark Furman gave them,
you know, the golden ticket. You know, they really did,
Like they were going up on the stand and having it.
They made that part of the trial. They made him
Netflix I think it's Netflix came out recently with the
with I think it's a recent documentary on the entire trial,
and they go over, you know, what they did to

(05:25):
Mark Furman to try to frame him as the bad
guy to take the attention away from the fact that
OJ killed his wife.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Right, They're like, did you ever have you ever said
the N word?

Speaker 2 (05:33):
Right? And but but that being said, it's not as
if the LAPD was completely innocent, because they've definitely done
stuff in the past to to make it. You know,
if if the LAPD was completely innocent, hadn't done stuff
in the past, the allegations against Furman wouldn't have worked
the way they did the way that they.

Speaker 1 (05:50):
Did, all right, And and and just to be clear,
what they went after Furman for was two things. One
he's lying, so perjury, right, But two you had these tapes,
you had these you had these audio interviews that Furman
made and it was with a screenwriter, right it. I'm

(06:13):
not defending it. I'm just pointing out what we're dealing with.
And ironically, I feel like it would almost matter less
now even though everything's on tape, not everything, But he
used the N word, and I want to say it
was three dozen times, probably more than that. In fact,

(06:38):
hold on, sorry, I know it's a random start to
the show.

Speaker 2 (06:44):
No, but it's big news. When I saw him passed
away last night.

Speaker 1 (06:47):
Forty one times, forty one times.

Speaker 2 (06:49):
You know, yeah, what are you doing, dude? Yeah? Like
I said, he gave him a golden ticket man, and
then and then lying about it, and then just what
happened with the evidence, where it was like be shopped
around everywhere before whoever needed to get it.

Speaker 1 (06:59):
He had the woman angle. Remember, he's like, ah, women
shouldn't be detectives.

Speaker 2 (07:03):
But it's so funny when it comes to OJ because
he was sort of seen as not I know, sounds
weird to say, but not not black. And they try
to make him like a big part of the black community.
But like he went to like country clubs and he
was he was OJ. Everybody loved OJ. There was nobody's

(07:24):
I don't.

Speaker 1 (07:24):
Want to describe this without getting in trouble.

Speaker 2 (07:26):
So there was nobody sitting back watching, you know, OJ,
going oh, I don't like that OJ guy. Everybody loved OJ.
He's in movies. He was a you know, a sports dude.

Speaker 1 (07:35):
Take Ghan where he's on the wheelchair going down there.

Speaker 2 (07:38):
Oh yeah, everybody loved it.

Speaker 1 (07:41):
How do I describe this? There is there is an
an epidemic of professional athletes, specifically black professional athletes who
go to country clubs a lot. It would be the
only way to describe it. And I understand this is

(08:02):
the public looking out. I will tell you roughly half
while basically the ones who are still alive of the
NC State national champion basketball team you can find at
a North Carolina country club every weekend. I know this

(08:24):
because I've literally played golf with two of them, right,
And that's the thing. It was so now being older
and more specifically being somebody who has left Wyoming like
country clubs weren't even a thing, bro, But I played enough.
I've played enough golf now where it's like I could

(08:51):
tell you which one of the NC state national champion.
There's two of them who are amazing golfers, but more
importantly amazing hustlers on this stuff. They're also not family murderers,
so this is important. But well, no, no, no, it's a
caveat right, Like, yeah, they had murder their whole fan.

Speaker 2 (09:09):
I mean, two things can be true here, but I.

Speaker 1 (09:11):
Never I just want to say this in Wyoming, like
I I was truly innocent in the sense that I
did not understand the racial animosty.

Speaker 2 (09:21):
You didn't understand it. Two things can be true here.
Markman can be a closet racist right right right, And
OJ can freak out one night and lose control because
his wife is apparently with another dude and you know,
take her head off.

Speaker 1 (09:35):
But both are both are Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:37):
But the decision to make this a racial trial was
a conscious decision made by the defense and it worked.

Speaker 1 (09:46):
Yeah. No, no, no, it's fascin It's literally fascinating in that sense.
And I'm sitting there watching it and I'm just like.

Speaker 2 (09:53):
Oh okay, all right, but but never truly appreciated.

Speaker 1 (10:00):
What it meant.

Speaker 2 (10:00):
I think a lot of people took it the way
that Dave Chappelle took it in that classic skit where
he's talking about the trial where he's going, you know,
remember when he's sitting there and it's like they're looking
at potential jurors or whatever, and they're like yeah, He's like,
He's like, yeah, you know, because you know, racism does exist,
it is a thing, and you know, we're gonna, you're gonna,
we're gonna use this one trial as a point in
time to see it as like redemption or you know,

(10:23):
revenge or vengeance or whatever against the atrocities of the past.
But at the same point, yeah, he did it, Yeah, yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (10:30):
Did it right. But then, but the part I didn't
appreciate is the the mindset of all right, this gets
us even like that. Honestly, that never crossed my mind.

Speaker 2 (10:42):
No, it's it's looney tunes. It's it's a crazy way
of thinking.

Speaker 1 (10:45):
And and by the way, for those of you that
are younger than us, you guys like the zeitgeist dancing edos,
do you guys even know what dancing Ross. You know
what dancing needles are?

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Dancing needs Oh yeah, yes, the Judge I forgot.

Speaker 1 (11:02):
Judge Lance Edo was a running bit on Jay Leno
Show where they had dancing edos. He was just this
like tiny little Asian dude and that was a bit.
That was the whole thing that happened on the on
the TV show.

Speaker 2 (11:20):
I read an article talking about how the OJ Chase
when the world stopped and everybody was watching OJ in
his in his stop the NBA game, Yeah, right in
his Bronco going down the road. Everybody watching that. I
read an article that was making the argument that that
was like the first our first real taste of reality television, because.

Speaker 1 (11:41):
That's that's fair. Yeah, absolutely, I'm trying to think of
anything that would have I used to TV reality TV
used to be good, used to be good, man, because
you would have to stop for those, you know, very

(12:03):
specific moments.

Speaker 2 (12:04):
And you had all these cast of characters like you
were talking about, like the Judge Edo and the Cato Talons,
and then the racist Mark Furman, and then the lawyer
who you know and.

Speaker 1 (12:12):
Marcia Clark, Yeah, all these people. Yeah, and you know
one of his lawyers, his brother ran the diner in
little old Buffalo, Wyoming. Seriously because he his brother lived
in Jackson, but his brother Tom ran the diner in
little little Buffalo, Ioming. And it's still it never it

(12:38):
just never clicked.

Speaker 3 (12:39):
Man.

Speaker 1 (12:40):
So anyway, Mark Furman passed away. What was he seventy three?
I was just seeing this this morning as I'm getting
things rolling. Wait, what is this? What was Boston Paul one?

Speaker 4 (12:55):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (12:57):
You know, I don't have the energy. I may or
may not have getten taken out last night by some
friends to celebrate something. Now I'm dragon.

Speaker 2 (13:07):
You're just gonna have to deal with that. Oh what
did you do for your birthday?

Speaker 1 (13:10):
I did not say that. I said I I may
have taken.

Speaker 2 (13:14):
I was inferring something. I apologize. Yeah, yeah, wow, look
at you. It was assuming. I was assuming.

Speaker 1 (13:24):
Yeah, yeah that's what Mark Ferman did. Oh that workout.

Speaker 2 (13:30):
You're the defense You're Johnny Cochran, and you're like, you know,
how do I defend this guy, you know, which really
seems like he's super guilty. Yeah, oh, Jay's blood and
you get DNA everywhere. It's just you know, and you're like, well,
I'm gonna have him, you know, And then you get
Mark Furman comes along and you're like, wow, this is great.
We're gonna focus on this dude, and they're gonna have

(13:50):
to put on the glove while he's wearing a glove,
so the glove doesn't fit.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
But you must also remember, let's also remember it that
whole nonsense is how we had to deal with the Kardashians, right,
you know that, right? Yes, yeah, So if not for
that insanity, we would not have to put up with
all the Kardashian you know, crap for all this time.

Speaker 2 (14:14):
There's so much going on.

Speaker 1 (14:16):
There, so you know, to have the uh, to have
the little news update there just you know, kind of
gets you thinking of this stuff. But yeah, it wasn't
for that. It wasn't for for this. Again, it's like
I'm trying to describe it in a polite way being

(14:36):
from Wyoming and and by the way, this was pre
d with it for whatever that like the one black
kid we had in school. This is so there's there
was no racial component to it. I'm just we're sitting
there literally in the wrestling room, we're all sitting down
pe whatever. I think it was actually our weight trading

(14:58):
class and none of the racial component ever, and some
would say, well, that's your privilege, you didn't have to
deal with it. I would argue that it was more
than privilege. It was I just wasn't gummed up in
any of that. I'm telling you. It was not till

(15:19):
I got to California where I had a moment. I
had a one of my roommates, this black guy, Like
we immediately hit it off, and we were in this
like group setting, and you know, we might have been
in bibing whatever, and like, I cracked this joke. He's

(15:40):
from La Okay, I'm from Wyoming, and I cracked this joke.
And in the joke, I sit there and I refer
to him as boy. And I'm telling you, it was
never a thing. It was never thing I grew up with,
and it was never a thing with him. But there
was one person there who just had to make it
a thing. And it never clocked. And it never clocked

(16:02):
with the OJ stuff, and it's it's just such a
weird way to grow up and now it's all forced upon. Anyway,
We'll be right back. He Mark Furman, the detective from
the OJ trial, I should say, one of the detectives.
I mean, there were multiple detectives, but clearly the one
who got the the bulk of the attention for again

(16:27):
the forty hold on forty one uses of the N
word as part of it. And this is the crazy thing.
He's talking to a screenwriter. He's like sitting there consulting
on something, but a screenwriter that he used to converse
with going back from nineteen eighty five to nineteen ninety four.

(16:50):
So you're dealing with mostly like a decade there, just
kind of the uprooting of what was going on with
the trial. You know, a lot of people and again
I was a kid. I'm sitting there watching as a kid,
but I'm also watching it and to this day, I.

Speaker 2 (17:07):
Will always own this as a.

Speaker 1 (17:15):
People would see it as a negative, but honestly, it's
just a unique perspective being a kid from Wyoming, being
in a a highly diverse place, right in the sense
that we had you know, like thirty five percent was
Native American and another like ten to fifteen percent was Hispanic.

(17:39):
That's growing up in Wyoming, Man, and so you have
that unique racial component perspective. We just didn't have black students.
We had one for a year and a half. He
was he was fostered through one of our pastors there,
and again him and I got along. De and I

(18:00):
were we were tight, man, just because like football team stuff.
But like never having that perspective that now I can
do the analysis and sit back there and and you know,
try to make sense of what was going on in
the trial. And now what makes sense to me is
you had this deep racial divide. You had it in

(18:23):
Los Angeles of all places, and you had what I
to this day, I think our jurors looking for an
excuse to get back at and I feel like that's
a fair analysis of it. But it like it never
dawned on me. It just was one of those It

(18:47):
was one of those things growing up along and you're like,
look at what the weirdos in California you are doing.
I'm honest on this show. You can hate on that
all you want, but like that was teenage or me
sitting there watching this going okay, all right, well that's weird.
But they're always weird in California, dude. That's why it

(19:07):
was so striking to go from high school in Wyoming
to college in California. Dude.

Speaker 2 (19:13):
That is a culture shock.

Speaker 1 (19:14):
Yes, I'll own it all day.

Speaker 2 (19:17):
Didn't never clocked it. You were like you were like
crocodile Dundee in New York.

Speaker 1 (19:21):
I was one hundred percent. That's why when like I
got my roommate, and you know, I had like seven roommates.
There was eight of us who lived in this house.
One of them was black, and then him and I
were just we were just tight, man. And like there
were a couple moments where people like, what's up with
that dude? And the excuse was he's from Wyoming. But

(19:42):
it wasn't like it wasn't some weird negative thing. It
was just the you know, these little rules that tend
to dictate, you know, what our behavior is supposed to be.
I was uncouth, man, man, and not in a negative way,
just like I didn't understand what what irritated people.

Speaker 2 (20:00):
I had the opposite experience, though, like when I was like,
you know, when I moved away from home at a
very you know, relative young age, right behind the ears,
you know, it was like going from inner city, you know,
going from like an urban life to eastern North Carolina.

Speaker 1 (20:15):
Right little country the area.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Like, man, there's a lot of tobacco.

Speaker 1 (20:18):
You know.

Speaker 2 (20:19):
Me, ye look at all that Like where is everybody.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
I mean, yeah, and I want to be clear, I
wasn't one of these guys who used the N word.
You know, none of like literally none of that ever clocked.
It never clocked.

Speaker 2 (20:32):
So so growing up, I never heard that word. And
the first time, really I'm actually like what I'm saying,
like hip hop doesn't count, right, I understand, I'm saying
like the hardy are never ever heard it. And the
first time I heard it is when I moved to
North Carolina, and I was shocked, like literally shocked that

(20:53):
something there was a little.

Speaker 1 (20:54):
Bit of that. I will agree, even moving down like.

Speaker 2 (20:57):
I was dumbfounded, like one of ies is.

Speaker 1 (21:00):
Here, never never entered the brain. Never. But but here's
the irony. So like Travis, what my best friend was Travis.
Travis was Dakota. He was you know he was he
was tribal dude. The crap we used to say to
each other. I'm not even lying, dude, he made custard

(21:22):
jokes at me. And it's just like everything clocked. It
was never that. I know in this day and age,
like people will want to sit there and roast me
for it. I'm just being honest with you. It just
was never there. It was never there. So it was
figuring out and trying to navigate with with with uh

(21:46):
specifically black roommate, but also his friends. Like that was
a new thing because d D was fostered by a
white pastor white family, the whole thing, and it just
never clocked it never So I never understood the totality
of the OJ stuff and all of the analysis there

(22:06):
until many years later, which is just a strange thing
because you know, what we sit here and we do
on the show now is you know, evaluate all this garbage,
and it is one of those things where it's like clearly,
it's easy to track that it went from you know,
clearly very bad going back like reconstruction, Jim Crow, all

(22:30):
the rest of this stuff, and then everyone just got
along this late nineties right down to Santa Barbara Boom
Boom boom doing the whole thing. And so I don't
know how it feels to everybody else, but it it
feels like the biggest reversal in relations in my lifetime

(22:52):
that particular issue. And some argue that OJ was the kickoff.
I don't necessarily believe that, but like it just tracked
in a completely different direction. Man, So you know, between
the LA Riots, the OJ thing, all of that. Yeah,
I was just watching it from afar. Do you remember

(23:14):
how they clown on an SNL Well you remember nor McDonald, dude,
one of the best SNL skits. Are you talking about
oj Ski?

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yeah? Yeah, the one yeah with when when they're what's
his name is doing it? Tim Meadows?

Speaker 1 (23:28):
Tim Meadows is the he's doing the he's doing OJ
doing the sideline coverage for the NFL.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Right with John Madden, and he's like, you know, showing
the play and how it's and then in the teleprompter
he writes out, look looks like he spelled out, I
did the illustrator.

Speaker 1 (23:40):
Yeah, illustrator, because I did it. I did it, dude,
so funny. Let me grab a call real quick.

Speaker 2 (23:46):
Mark.

Speaker 1 (23:47):
What's up, hey, Katie?

Speaker 4 (23:51):
I just won't when you started talking about this this morning.
I want to do this ship with you. I was.
I was born in Raleigh, but I've lived in rules
southeastern North Carolina for fifty five years now. I was
at my first big job out of college. I was
traveling the airports all the time, and in nineteen ninety five,
twenty five years old, I was in the Charlotte Douglas Airport.

(24:14):
When they read the verdict, the concourses cleared out, everybody
got in front of a TV because we didn't have
our smartphones. But but I was watching that and as
they read the verdict and I watched, you know, the
white people were like, oh my gosh. I made a
point to look at I said, this is going to
be interesting, and they were like, oh my gosh, I

(24:35):
can't believe that. You know, the folks that were watching
it on TV, that was right, they cheered. And it
was that moment that I had that realization, I said,
because I didn't even in rural southeastern North Carolina growing up,
I didn't really see that. But when I did, I
was like, oh my gosh. And when I looked back

(24:55):
here in retrospect, I'm like, I don't know if we'll
come back from that or not, because that's not what
I was when I was twenty five years old and
I was in the airport with all these people, and
it was just uh defining moment. Yeah anyway, and that.

Speaker 1 (25:11):
Yeah, no, no, no, I hear you. It was it was
my I don't know how old you were at the time,
but like it like it. It didn't even catch with
me at the time now five Yeah, okay, all right.

Speaker 4 (25:25):
Yeah, anyway, happy birthday.

Speaker 2 (25:28):
No, we're not doing this.

Speaker 1 (25:30):
You need to get off the phone ross the phones
are broke.

Speaker 2 (25:36):
And why why is it this always happens on your birthday?
Like what the hell?

Speaker 3 (25:39):
Man?

Speaker 1 (25:40):
I didn't say it was my birthday? He said it
was my birthday, right, Yeah.

Speaker 2 (25:46):
You don't feel partially responsible for that. So you're not
going to put this party had on that I brought in.

Speaker 1 (25:51):
No, it's party hads. So yeah, it's not it's not happening.

Speaker 2 (25:58):
Trevor said, we need to make a reel or something
with the already had on. No, Trevor said.

Speaker 1 (26:03):
Trevor said that he abruptly rejects, you're not yours, but
the weird little petition you retweeted because he's a dictator
and that's where he left it. So you don't think
that's weird because we had a meeting with him after
the show today, which I see he hasn't canceled, So anyway,

(26:25):
we'll get into that, all right, coming up on the show,
the Pink Panthers after your kids, that's troubling. The amazing
Zultar is undefeated, so that'll be fun and uh, the.

Speaker 2 (26:41):
Dude, the Luigi MANNGIONI chicks, dude, what is going on?

Speaker 1 (26:46):
I know what's going on? Like we're we're heading down
a path we shouldn't head down. But I'll give you
the details on that. U. It is six forty six
cac O Day radio program. Hang on, you gotta stick
with it. I guess you guys remember Zoltar machines, right,
the fortune teller. So the dude who just won the
Powerball in Michigan has been playing the same Zoltar fortune

(27:11):
Teller machine numbers for thirty years. Thirty years ago when
he was in Las Vegas. Fifty six year old Steven
me how to pronounce that last name quaestion equation.

Speaker 2 (27:26):
I don't know, says he got this lucky set of.

Speaker 1 (27:30):
Numbers in Vegas and since then he has played the
same numbers for thirty years. And he's from Fraser, Michigan.
The numbers hit that's right, says he received the numbers
thirty years ago, years ago in Las Vegas, playing them
since and he had the winning numbers in the April

(27:50):
twenty second drawing. How long do you stick with it? Ross?
You don't do lottery, You're a lottery guy, right.

Speaker 2 (28:00):
You know, every now and then if it's a big
power ball or something, but not not really all right, yeah,
what do you think I recently, if you don't know,
the Zultar machine is the one from the movie Big.

Speaker 1 (28:11):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (28:11):
Yeah, Tom, Yeah, it's the movie that that's the machine
that made him big, the magic machine. I recently bought
this past Christmas my buddy Michael, who's house I'm gonna
bulldoze one day we brought up and show repeated I
bought him like a miniature Ultar machine.

Speaker 1 (28:24):
Why would you do that if you're just gonna bulldoze it?
One day?

Speaker 2 (28:28):
Well, I thought it was a fun gift because you know,
he's a big communist socialist progression. So I was like,
I thought you liked that guy in New York City.
Isn't his name Zultar? Yeah, I just bought the bought
him a Zultar machine a because it's cool, but also
it's a man Donnie joke. So and he was like, no,
it's not man Donnie, this is Zultar. Like, yeah, the

(28:48):
guy's name in New York is like zolt Man, Zoltar,
Zoltan Zulta.

Speaker 1 (28:52):
No, no, no, it's right, yeah, Zamboni.

Speaker 2 (28:55):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (28:58):
I don't know, man, he used it? Has he got
any predictions from him?

Speaker 5 (29:02):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (29:02):
Not that I know of?

Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, I no, no, that Actually I'm actually offended by that. No,
I bought you a Zoltar machine. I would want to
know whatever predictions he gives you, I know, part of
it just to mess with you potentially. So he's never
given you any predictions that have come from this thing.

Speaker 2 (29:22):
No, it's it's probably you know, it's just a it's
just a glorified you know, magic eight ball, So what
it is unless you know you use it to win
the power ball? Whatever this is.

Speaker 1 (29:31):
Yeah, No, it's helpful. So what if he just got
a bad predictions like Trump?

Speaker 2 (29:35):
Well, it's like one of these things, right, you can
hang out with you know, it's one of these things
where you can hang out with dudes forever and not
even know what they do for a living or you know,
you have you know, you go to like, you know,
a function and there's families together and you hang out
with dudes in the backyard. It's all the dads, and
later on the wife is like, so, who'd you mean?
And I'm like, I don't know.

Speaker 1 (29:51):
Anything. Oh yeah, women will never understand that.

Speaker 2 (29:54):
Yeah, it's the same sort of thing. So I'm sure
he's used it, but it just hasn't come up. Yeah,
we just don't want the drama for the ladies listening.
We just it doesn't matter to us what a dude
does for a living, any of it. And by the way,
even if you ask and he doesn't tell you.

Speaker 1 (30:11):
You're not even offended by it. You're just like, oh,
you know, he can't, like, what do you do for
a living? I'm in business, perfect, I'm good with that.

Speaker 2 (30:20):
Ron. So just some guy.

Speaker 1 (30:21):
If you asked it what he did for a living,
he's like, I'm in business. Would you ask a follow up?

Speaker 2 (30:25):
I probably wouldn't.

Speaker 1 (30:27):
No.

Speaker 2 (30:27):
No, it's that old Brian Reagan routine where he talks
about going golfing with his recently divorced buddy.

Speaker 1 (30:31):
Oh yeah, yeah, he was getting married.

Speaker 3 (30:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (30:34):
And he comes back and the wife is like, well,
how's whatever his name? How is Bob doing? And he's yeah,
I find it, and she's like, well, how is he
handling divorce?

Speaker 1 (30:42):
Like, I don't know, what did you get when I
was married? Yeah? He showed he made his tea time.
That's it. That's the only thing we're going to care about. Man, Well, no,
it's a dude that's one hundred percent. That is one
hundred percent on plane. All right, let me do this.
Let me set this story of uh, there we go.

(31:05):
All right. I know what they do because I googled it,
but I kind of understand. Here's the thing. I understand
why people's frustration may be over the Cars for Kids
ad and more specifically the charity by.

Speaker 2 (31:23):
Because when you.

Speaker 1 (31:24):
Hear that, not only are you incredibly annoyed just with
the jingle of it, but most people, you know, don't
fully understand what that charity does. And if you don't know,
Cars for Kids, which you may think is just a
general catch all Kid's Charity, is actually a charity that

(31:44):
is run by a Jewish organization, and more specifically, the
monies that are raised from it go to support various
charitable endeavors, specifically for you know, Jewish kids. Yeah, and
so in Israel, some in the US, whatever, but does
not stay necessarily in the state where the moneys are raised.

(32:08):
That being said, the fact that in the state of California,
they just adjudicated a lawsuit that essentially barred them from
running those ads I think is mostly connected to this
weird anti Semitic behavior that's going on. I could just

(32:28):
throw that out there, but a court in California did
have a ruling on this, and specifically they called the
ads deceptive. So coming up in the next hour, we'll
go ahead and get into the details of that. If
it'll load, thank you, it did. Reuters is reporting that

(32:49):
exotic dancers are planning to go on strike during the
World Cup for whatever reason. I don't know how wide
spread this is. Ironically, in the article, you have dancers
both in the US and in Canada. Specifically, they say

(33:11):
that they need to change the dynamic of how people
are paid within clubs, and the World Cup is the
best chance to do it. So, dude, that's going to
gum up some of these long running police investigations. Got
to figure out what's going on. Specifically, it's not some

(33:31):
union thing. Specifically, the dancers say that they're upset that
management seems to be making making more money. There are
rules and increase bar fees, overbooking and worse working conditions,
and they feel like this is the time to do it.
I mean, here's the thing. I mean, clearly, yeah, what

(33:54):
like twenty eight World Cup sites or some crazy number
over the course of it between Canada Mexico. The that's
probably when you're gonna get the attention. But also you're
you're nipping into probably what is like peak earning season.
So I don't know.

Speaker 2 (34:14):
They have a list of cities here, the sixty different cities.

Speaker 1 (34:20):
Man, I don't know. All right, So I guess if
you're an enthusiast of that, just know that there is
a possibility you're gonna be dealing with that. Okay, all right, wonderful,
all right, let me go ahead and get into this.

Speaker 2 (34:40):
Please.

Speaker 1 (34:41):
In Fredericksburg, Virginia, say they're investigating reports that a person
in and they described this as an animal costume is
chasing children near some of the city's bus stops. We
just flick the wrong button there, there we go.

Speaker 3 (34:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (34:58):
Mary Camuso report that their two children and their classmates
got off a bus school bus in this case in Fredericksburg,
spotted somebody in a pink animal costume, and to say
they were nervous would be a bit of an understatement.
Once the bus left the area, the person in the
cost and reportedly chased the group of four children and

(35:20):
tried to grab one of the little girls, was unable
to kids got away. That's the pink panther. That's what's
so weird about this story. That is the pink panther.
And I guess I'm kind of wondering, do do we
not know what the pink panther is anymore? Probably ross,

(35:44):
is what I was thinking about. I don't know that
the pink panther is a thing anymore. Of course you
have the movies, you had the cartoons when we were kids,
but in modern day, I don't is the pink panther
even still a thing? Probably not. I don't know if
any of that's on TV anymore.

Speaker 2 (36:02):
I don't think it is. I know Lincoln knows what
it is, but Lincoln is different.

Speaker 1 (36:05):
Yeah, Lincoln's all into history.

Speaker 2 (36:07):
I mean he also he wore a shirt the other
day of Jimmy Stewart's face on it that we had
custom made for him because he likes all these old movies. Yeah,
he's really you know, he's into the history of animation
and cinema. So he's well aware of all these people
and Alfred Hitchcock, so he wanted He's been watching the
movie Vertigo and there's a scene with Jimmy Stewart where
like his face is all a trippy and we put

(36:30):
that on a shirt for him, so he knows who
the pink panther is. But I don't know if the
average kid does.

Speaker 1 (36:36):
Yeah, no, I don't. I don't know that it's a
thing anymore. Man, I was this is what I was
thinking about. Wait, does have you told Lincoln who shot
Liberty Balance? Does he know?

Speaker 2 (36:45):
Or you know, we haven't gotten there yet.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
Has he watched that movie? No? Oh, dude, what a
great movie. What a great movie that is, Because you're
like John Wayne's in this, like clearly you know, but
like don't want to boiled this for anybody. So you
had him cut. You had a custom made Jimmy Stewart shirt.
What prompted that?

Speaker 2 (37:07):
He said he wanted a Jimmy Stewart shirt?

Speaker 1 (37:09):
Right, No, no, no, But like, was he fixated on a movie?

Speaker 5 (37:12):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (37:12):
Or a movie vertigo?

Speaker 1 (37:13):
Oh okay, all right, Well you said he was watching that.
I didn't know if he had one. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (37:17):
The thumbnail for that is like Jimmy Stewart's big face.

Speaker 1 (37:20):
Yeah. Absolutely, man, dude, there's so many good Jimmy Stewart
movies Shnandoah, like he Get Broken Arrow. That's a great
Jimmy Stewart movie. Of course, the Man who Shot Liberty Balanced,
the Man from Laramie. You're talking to a kid who
cut his teeth on old Western so uh yeah, Winchester

(37:41):
seventy three.

Speaker 2 (37:44):
Dude.

Speaker 1 (37:44):
There's there's so many actors that if if you're not
old enough, like you don't realize that they were West.
I mean, you know Clint East what everyone gets right
one hund But Charles Bronson, Ye know, That's that's the thing.

(38:07):
If you're not old enough, you don't realize that Charles
Bronson was a Western actor once upon a time in
the West. I don't know if you're familiar with that movie.
Great movie, do the Harmonica, the whole thing there, Oh fantastic.
And you got Henry Fonda, got all these great actors.

Speaker 2 (38:24):
I've been trying to get him into westerns and like,
you know that sort of content like Red Dead, Redemption
and that he's watched me play it. But I think
it's like an age thing.

Speaker 1 (38:34):
Oh no, you know what I mean.

Speaker 2 (38:35):
As you get older, you start to appreciate westerns moores,
especially when your father used to watch them because I
used to be the same way, but like my dad's
watching this crap again and now like now I love
watching them and I wish he was around for us
to watch him together.

Speaker 1 (38:47):
Dude, I hate that for you, like for me, Like
from the time, I was like, all right, I'm paying
attention to what's going on to Western and like the
morality tells in there.

Speaker 2 (38:58):
Yeah, dude, John in general, like you know he used
to watch all this movies. Yeah, yep. Oh, there's so
many good lessons there. All right, Well, get him into dude,
I can make.

Speaker 1 (39:09):
A whole list for him. Keep him well, he has
a year round school. I was gonna say, keep him,
keep him busy all summer. But yeah, and that's the
other thing too, if if you are into westerns, uh,
you know, we talked about how the streaming services basically
don't have any of the movies, and it's a it's
a damn tragedy. The Westerns are all around. There are

(39:31):
multiple streaming platforms, So if that's what you want to
get into, all that's gonna be.

Speaker 2 (39:36):
But you know, autism can be so fun. But like,
like so we went for a walk in Jordia Park
and like I was saying, Lincoln is really into these
old movies and like like Cinneamon stuff, and he has
tons of lists, lists of movies and what do they
came out in, and like who started them and how
long they are, and he's like a walking encyclopedia of
this knowledge. He has an extensive knowledge of movies and

(39:58):
also like music from the fifties and sixties, like a
walking encyclopedia this stuff. So we're walking in Joyner Park.
We've been walking there lately, trying to get our steps in,
and we with the baby and the boys, and you
know Jordan Park they have these old sort of.

Speaker 1 (40:11):
Like log cabins.

Speaker 2 (40:12):
Not doing any walking, No, we're pushing them around. But
he's eleven. He's like looking at the trees and so,
you know, Jordan Park is these old sort of like
farmhouses and like log cabins and stuff. So Lincoln's going
into the one and he walks into it and this
bird is in there, had a nest in there, and
starts flying around right, and it's trying to get out,
and Lincoln just starts going the birds nineteen sixty three

(40:34):
Alfred Hitchcock one hour fifty nine minutes, one hour fifty
nine minutes.

Speaker 1 (40:40):
It didn't get murdered by the bird.

Speaker 2 (40:41):
No, no, I left. Oh okay, good, But like what
other kids, Wheler go, well, what other fourteen year old
would do that?

Speaker 1 (40:48):
Oh it's great, man, dude. There's just so much good
cinema packed in there. If you're just you know, if
you're not old enough. He never experienced the era, dude,
there's so much good stuff. One of one of the
things I am most thankful for is, to some extent,
my father, but primarily my mother. She was she absolutely

(41:10):
she's just like she didn't care about the new movies.
She's like, you're gonna watch all this old stuff.

Speaker 2 (41:15):
My dad to the extent that he had this old
vinyl collection, so that was if you didn't want to
listen to country, this is the rock you were gonna
listen to.

Speaker 1 (41:24):
Dude. What a great appreciation for that.

Speaker 2 (41:27):
And I and and I understand that like this generation
will pretend they invented it.

Speaker 1 (41:31):
I'm not knocking on all of it. I know there's
some young listeners out there, but but like, so much
good stuff there, and I can't imagine not wanting to like.

Speaker 2 (41:44):
Sample any of that. Were you just you know, you
just expressly original well, no, you used to be in
the car and you would trapped with your dad or
your parents, and you would listen to, you know, their music,
or maybe they would let you listen to your station.
But I remember listening to and listening to some music
from the sixties and thinking, wow, this music is so old.
This is old timey music that was like in the
before times in the sixties, right, and this is like

(42:06):
nineteen eighty eight or something eighty five, And that would
be like today if I'm in the car listening to
music from what two thousand and five?

Speaker 1 (42:17):
Aqua?

Speaker 2 (42:17):
You mean.

Speaker 1 (42:19):
You jam it out to the Aqua right.

Speaker 2 (42:21):
Well, whatever it's on the radio from that time, it's
just it's the same exact thing, and it's just like
back then. It felt like it was like forever ago.
And I'm sure he feels the exact same way, because I.

Speaker 1 (42:31):
Got bad news. Aquas announced they're breaking up after thirty years. No,
did they.

Speaker 2 (42:36):
Do anything else than Barbie Girl? They didn't have to.

Speaker 1 (42:40):
Well, but and then this is the thing too, how
did you do a whole Barbie movie and not have
that part.

Speaker 2 (42:47):
Of the sound Is it not on the soundtrack?

Speaker 1 (42:50):
Is it not?

Speaker 2 (42:51):
Or is it I've just assumed it was all right,
hold on, hold on butt. If you're making a movie
called Barbie, why would you not have the Barbie Girl
sound a song in.

Speaker 1 (42:58):
It, Barbie Girl, Barbie Movie, Barbie Girls song, Because like,
that's what you're waiting around for for thirty fricking years, Right,
You're just like, yeah, this is our moment, dude. That
song was everywhere.

Speaker 2 (43:19):
Yeah. If you're Aqua and the Barbie movie comes out
and they don't ask to put your song in the movie,
you have to be devastated.

Speaker 1 (43:25):
Well, cuars, no, the answer is right, Well that's why
they quit. There, we're out, We're done. Yeah. Although the
original nineteen ninety seven hit song Barbie Girl is not
playing its entirety in the live action film, it is
sampled in one of the tracks featuring Nicki Minaj and
Ice Spi. What is an Ice Spice? By the way,

(43:47):
you know, I've been holding off figuring out what that is.
That's a singer. I got it. It's a woman, right,
I don't know.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
I think so.

Speaker 1 (43:54):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
I think it's like a hip poor I think what
hip hop?

Speaker 1 (43:58):
Hoh yeah, yeah, okay, Oh that's crazy. Oh look at
this backstory here, dude, listen to this. I had no idea.
So do you know what happened with that song? So

(44:20):
when they made the Barbie movie, I kid you not,
Mattel sent a cease and desist letter to Aqua claiming
that the song committed trademark infringement, arguing it ruined the
brand's wholesome image. So they sat around for what thirty years, right,

(44:44):
and then put the movie out and then sued the
Bear send a season desist to the band over a
song that was.

Speaker 2 (44:52):
Thirty years ago.

Speaker 1 (44:56):
The courts eventually threw it out, siding with the band,
declaring the song a protected parody. This all happened during
twenty twenty three, and when the movie was in production.

Speaker 2 (45:08):
Dude, I had no idea about it. Yeah, dude, they're
about thirty years too late for that one.

Speaker 1 (45:13):
No, but what an ahole move by yep, dude, that
thing's been cooking for thirty years. For thirty years, you
probably sat there and you won. Yeah, no, this is fine, right,
Barbie girl in a Barbie world. Let's do this, and
then when the movie comes out, you you put a
cease and desist on the band. I'm trying, I'm trying

(45:34):
to think too What was a more cliche band thirty
years ago than Aqua. I'm just trying to think of
that era. What Chumbawamba, tudd thumpy dude. We had so
many I understand that, I like, I argue for the
music of my childhood, but we had some really bad

(45:57):
songs in there. Ross, What do you think was the
worst song of the era, just in the pure cliche model?

Speaker 2 (46:05):
Was it Barbie Girl? Ducause?

Speaker 1 (46:06):
I thought, I mean it might be what about right,
said Fred?

Speaker 2 (46:11):
That's pretty bad.

Speaker 1 (46:12):
Yeah, that's pretty bad, right, said Fred? Was pretty I'm
too sexy, dude, that thing was. I don't know if
there was a bigger hit for like a year.

Speaker 2 (46:22):
It's crazy, though, how many songs back then. I was
talking to Mark about this. We were driving in the
car and Spice Girls came one want to Be and
she starts singing, and you know, we all started singing
the car the Spice Girl song, and She's like, you know, oh,
back in the day, you probably thought they were so hot,
and I'm like no, Me and my buddy Phil, we
were like really big into like Nirvana and all the
alt rock of the day, right, So when that song

(46:43):
came out, we despised the Spice Girls because we thought
they were morons, right, We didn't want any part of that.
She's like, well, you know you thought they were hot though,
and I'm like, no, like they're idiocy superseded their hotness
at the time, and we despised the music. We didn't
want anything to do with it. We didn't want to
hear it on the radio. And now it's like nostalgic
of a better time. And I'm like, yeah, turn up

(47:03):
the Spice Girls. I don't even care.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
Yeah, no, that's a dude. That's a fair point.

Speaker 2 (47:07):
Yeah, well there was so much, dude, there was a
window there in the mid nineties and it, don't get
me wrong, a.

Speaker 1 (47:14):
Lot of it just killed. But like just for sheer
stupidity of songs.

Speaker 2 (47:21):
Spikes Girls, Cotton nine, Joe, Wow, No, come on now,
it's it's in this sort of category.

Speaker 1 (47:28):
No, you can't do you can't. I like the song,
but I'm saying, dude, that was a good song. I
don't know, maybe it's where I grew up. I just
I don't see it on the you know, Mockarna that
was horrible, right, sure was, And I've explained. I've explained
on the show mockarna once you figure out what the
lyrics mean.

Speaker 2 (47:49):
Totally different song, totally different song.

Speaker 1 (47:54):
This was one. This was literally one of the big
eye openers. As I was sitting there trying to learn Spanish,
I'm like, oh my god, really, so the song. The
premise of the song, if I could just throw this
out to you, Oh, I'm looking at hold on, let
me look at my clock. All right, I got time.
The premise of the song is she's dating a dude.

(48:14):
He's in the military, he's deployed, and she's hitting everything
she can.

Speaker 2 (48:22):
That's the premise of the song.

Speaker 1 (48:23):
So while you're all sitting there and you're like, oh,
let me do the stupid moves, you're celebrating a woman
and it's like, yeah, no, he got deployed, so I'm
I'm hooking up with his best friend. That's the song.
Don't believe me. Grab the lyrics translate you'll understand that
I'm correct. But yeah, for a lot of losers, there's
a whole lot of winners. But yeah, now the band's

(48:43):
broke up, so you Barbie fans, you're screwed. Anyway, we'll
be back forty say they strapped three baby monkeys. Well,
in strap. They essentially shoved him in their underwear in
a bid to smuggle him into the Dominican Republic. So
they're coming from a cart to Hana, which, by the way,
just for all of you travel foot. Cartajna might be

(49:05):
the hottest city.

Speaker 2 (49:06):
I've ever been in ever, And it's cool, like it's
old Spanish fort.

Speaker 1 (49:12):
They have a walled city in there. It's very interesting.
Would never return because it's so miserable hot the whole time. Sorry,
just throwing that out there. A twenty seven year old
woman and twenty six year old man were busted at
the airport in Cartajna set to fly to Santa Domingo

(49:33):
in a republican Dominican Republic, and authorities say they discovered
that they had monkeys in their underwear, specifically two white
faced capuchins. Those would be like the justin Bieber monkeys.
And and this is the part that kills me. A
howler monkey. You ever been around howler monkeys?

Speaker 2 (49:58):
Ross? Are you familiar with howler monkeys? There's a reason
they're called howler monkeys. I don't know, I am, I
am familiar with them. So when we went down to
visit our in laws in Louisiana. Yes, Marky's dad down there.
He had a part time job giving tours of the zoo.
It's Louisiana purchased zoo down there, and they.

Speaker 1 (50:20):
Have what's that, Wait, hold on, what's it called Louisiana
purchase zoo?

Speaker 2 (50:23):
Yeah, something like that. Yes, at Lincoln had like one
of his favorite t shirts is from there. It's like
a red shirt with the words on it.

Speaker 3 (50:28):
Uh.

Speaker 2 (50:29):
So we went down there and they do have a
howler monkey. Yes, and this monkey is notorious for doing
something to itself in front of the people at the zoo. Oh,
its hair not quite drinking water and uh and that's
what it I mean, m you give it enough time
in an audience and they'll do what it does. He's like,

(50:51):
here I go, it's my big chance. Is he loud?

Speaker 1 (50:53):
Though he is? Okay? Howler monkeys are razy disconcerted. So
if you've never traveled to Southern Mexico, Central America, South America,
you don't truly appreciate it, Like you don't understand how
stupid it is to think you can smuggle a Haller
monkey through an airport. Man, here's what I'm Here's what

(51:16):
I want you to imagine you're sitting there, You're at
that resort in I don't know, Costa Rica or Colombia
or a Root, you know, some of the southern Caribbean,
and you're just sitting there and you're in your room,
it's dark, you're getting ready to go to sleep. You
lay down right, You're like, oh, there's some birds salt,

(51:37):
and then all of a sudden, in the distance, it
sounds like a co ed getting murdered. But she's kind
of into it. There's no other way to describe it.
So how you think you're gonna walk through an airport
like that? And I mean she's getting murdered with all
the knives. That's the sound the hawler monkey's making. But

(51:58):
also again into it, but that's when they try to
smuggle through the airport. Also, I would uh, I would
feel bad for the monkeys for another reason, like you
got to ride out in my underwear for like eight

(52:18):
hours while I'm traveling eating airport food like that should
be available offense anyway, because you're getting crop tested. I'm
not gonna lie to you, but all told listen to this.
They estimate that one point for million dollars is roughly

(52:39):
the equivalent of the black market just for Colombian holler
monkeys coming out of Columbia. Man, it was even crazier
is they have the shot of them, you know, the
standard like law enforcement shot where they're they're standing there,
they've been busted, right, you got the police, they're in cuffs,
and then on the table you have whatever your fence is.

(53:00):
And then normally it's just piles of drugs. They're like, ah,
look at all the cocaine we seized. But in this case,
they just have the monkeys on the table. By the way,
that'll get you eleven years in a Columbian prison, by
the way, if you're considering it, which is what these
two are facing. So there you go, all right, eight

(53:21):
eight eight nine three fours seven eight seven four. I
just throw these in now to continue to make the point.
Salem Elementary and APEX is having problems with their air conditioning.
That's right here we go another Way County school, which
if you remember we talked about this, they did a

(53:46):
tally and they figured out that of all of the
money that was allocated within Wake County and actually the
entire state of North Carolina, but much more so in
Wake County, of all the moneys from COVID that were
allocated for or you know, fixing your ac, fixing your HVAX,
just six percent, just six percent in Wake County actually

(54:11):
went to HVAC improvement. So what do we have here?
We have yet another Wake County school where it gets
hot and then the AC doesn't work. According to letters
sent to parents, the temperature inside the school reached roughly
eighty degrees. It states that they are quote working closely

(54:33):
with maintenance to resolve the issue quote while teaching and
learning is able to continue. We recognize the conditions are
not ideal. Some students may be uncomfortable. Yeah, dude, I
have a hard time concentrating when it's warm. We just
had this a few weeks ago with was it a
few weeks ago Time Flies, where your studio was literally cooking.

(54:56):
Ross's studio was unbearable for like.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
A week and a It was like asana.

Speaker 1 (55:01):
Yeah. Yeah, it's so hard to concentrate.

Speaker 2 (55:04):
I can't but the heat makes me fall asleep.

Speaker 1 (55:06):
Yeah, especially you know, especially oh dark thirty. See, our
teachers are keeping a close eye on the students, providing
water breaks is needed, and of course we got you know,
super warm weather again. We'll talk to Ray here in
just a moment. However, the school says they plan on
keeping their daily schedule.

Speaker 2 (55:23):
Man, it's only as if you should have taken that money. Actually,
because here's the thing.

Speaker 1 (55:28):
Even though we would have come to the conclusion that
spending a gazillion dollars on you know, air filtering systems
and all that, maybe wasn't necessary, at least the kids
wouldn't have to worry about the fact that their school
is going to be a boiler man. And yet that's
where we are here, the letter continues. Please, no, we're

(55:48):
committed to providing a safe and comfortable learning environment for
all the students. Well, clearly not, because clearly you took
all the money other than six percent, and he's spend
it on other stuff. And now you get to deal
with it because we're in summer, and I don't know
if you know this, Ross, I don't know if you're
aware of this. Did you know it gets hot in
the summer in North Carolina? It does?

Speaker 2 (56:09):
Yes? Yeah, okay, all right, look at that, even Ross aware,
So good on that?

Speaker 3 (56:17):
All right?

Speaker 1 (56:18):
Eight eight eight nine three four seven eight seven four.
We got to talk. We got to talk about what's
going on in or what happened in San Diego? And
again we're gonna condemn it here on the show, but
I'm just you know, I'm also going to point out
how different is the coverage is, so we'll have that
going for us. I'm sorry, Ross, would you say in

(56:39):
my ear there? Okay? All right, rock on. Let me
grab a quick call here, Sam. What's up?

Speaker 5 (56:47):
Hey, Casey?

Speaker 4 (56:48):
How are you just wanting?

Speaker 1 (56:49):
I'm good, sir.

Speaker 4 (56:51):
Good.

Speaker 5 (56:52):
While the school system doesn't have enough money to pay
teachers for to keep the air conditioning running, the county
is building a fifty eight thousand square foot which is
a high school. Yeah, dog pounds for one hundred and
sixty five dolls fifty eight thousand square feet?

Speaker 1 (57:13):
Wait, wait, Julla, I just want to make sure I
got this. So they're doing a sixty thousand roughly square
foot animal shelter.

Speaker 5 (57:23):
Animal shelter with a capacity of one hundred and sixty
five dolls, And is.

Speaker 1 (57:29):
That money to Yeah? Is that too many? Honestly, I
don't know how to gauge that is that.

Speaker 5 (57:35):
You know, I love my animals, but mostly what you
end up with is a bunch of barking pit bulls
that nobody walts. Yeah, I mean we're gonna spend you know,
millions on that.

Speaker 1 (57:48):
Yeah. And the blue tag thing, I think I've talked
about this on the radio.

Speaker 4 (57:51):
Man.

Speaker 1 (57:52):
That was absolute gut punch there. And I hate it
because I as much as Pete thanks for the colors.
As much as people think that I don't like animals,
I do. I just like make cat jokes totally different.
But I went with a friend, she was looking to
adopt a dog, and we went over to Wake County
Animal Shelter kind of near the station there, and I'd

(58:13):
never been over there, and like, they do this whole
thing before you walk in, and they're like all right,
and I can't remember exactly what color the tag was, but.

Speaker 2 (58:23):
They're like all right.

Speaker 1 (58:24):
So you go in there and oh, by the way,
any of the dogs that have a blue like this
blue ticket in front of them, Yeah, we're gonna put
those down tomorrow. So and I'm like, what kind of
mind game is this? And then you go in there
and it's like blue tags for days and it's it's
a lot of pitbulls. So you're just like, it's just

(58:46):
a gup punch man. So yeah, I don't know what
the I don't know what the size is supposed to be.
I'll be honest with you, sir so, but yeah, the
should probably get the ac working as well. All right,
seven forty let's get raised agic from the weather channel.
All right, dude, like I don't want to. I don't
want to tell you how to do your job.

Speaker 2 (59:07):
Okay, but you will no, yeah, no, no, no one,
yeah no, come on many August whatever.

Speaker 1 (59:19):
I got nothing to say then, but no not in May.

Speaker 6 (59:22):
Yeah, how about some creds though went for the record yesterday,
got it right at least I'm glad.

Speaker 1 (59:28):
You got on a little cread. Yeah, I'm so happy
credit So thanks.

Speaker 6 (59:32):
Didn't get there the tryad And you know today probably
similar record for Raleigh at RDU is ninety six. I'm
just gonna say ninety six. Gonna go forward again. Lots
of sunshine, maybe a few clouds this morning, as we're
seen just west of the Triad where it'll be in
the low nineties.

Speaker 1 (59:47):
The record for.

Speaker 6 (59:50):
The Triad is ninety five, so I don't think a
record there once again, as they didn't yesterday. But the
heat continues today tomorrow a little mid nineties both days
then we transition. Now you may or may not like
the transition, but case cooler temperatures, but the rain chances
are going to increase, and probably in quite some time,

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one of the longest stretches of greater than fifty percent
chances of rain and thunderstorms starting Thursday, Friday and right
through the holiday weekend, with temperatures coming down still close
to ninety Thursday, depends on what time it rains, you
may stay in the eighties, and then for Friday near
eighty and Saturday, Sunday Monday low to mid eighties, so
there's some time for heating, but that may lead to

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scattered showers and thunderstorms each day for the holiday weekend
that includes the beaches. But I think less of a chance,
believe it or not, as you head out near the
outer banks. And yeah, I know, I know, yeah, nobody
really likes it. I know we need the rain, but
i'd say better than average or normal opportunities, maybe more
than just pop up stuff. But I don't think you

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get rain at any one given point. Every day, Saturday, Sunday, Monday,
some bite, but there may be some lucky ones that
actually don't. I hope it changes, and I hope I'm wrong,
but it looks like we'll get into widely scattered showers
thunder showers each day, So have an indoor plan. Thunder roars,
get indoors. That's how we'd like to keep every keep everybody.

Speaker 1 (01:01:16):
If you if you want to do riptides, that's fine,
right because and I'm not going into yeah yeah, but
you know, I'll keep the weather nice. I'll work on
the man. Okay, you got now, thank you, raised agic
from the Weather Channel. All right, coming up?

Speaker 2 (01:01:31):
Who likes to eat dirt? More on that in the
moment some forty eight Hang on, dude, I saw that.

Speaker 1 (01:01:37):
So I saw the mayor of Seattle yesterday. She kind
of like was hedging her bets. If you remember, she's
a she never had a real job, basically live with
their parents and then uh moved to an apartment there,
got elected mayor of Seattle and was just openly hostile
to business. And and in fact they're like somebody asked

(01:02:00):
her here what last week? They're like, what are you
gonna do if the business moves away? Just remember Seattle
announced they have they're gonna they're gonna four excuse me,
form a separate headquarters. Specifically in Nashville. That'll create some
two thousand jobs. So these are jobs that would have

(01:02:21):
come to Seattle. Sixty one jobs would then move that
are currently existing in Seattle. And her response was by
and I think now the numbers are showing. So yesterday
she seemed a little like hesitant to keep going down
that road. And I'm like, all right, maybe maybe she

(01:02:43):
saw the numbers. Maybe somebody had a discussion with her.
My question is, do you think mon Damie ever comes
to that point or is there's just like ross. Do
you think there's ever a moment where he clearly backtracks
on that, because I think this guy's committed.

Speaker 2 (01:02:58):
Yeah, probably not.

Speaker 1 (01:02:59):
I think it literally could be on fire behind him
and he's just like, no, this is fine. He would
do the meme. So, uh so he's given a little
speech and he he decides he's going to invoke a
Ronald Reagan quote one you are pretty clear with. I'm
gonna play that for you here in the moment. Let
me grab one other call real quick. Anthony's been hanging on.

(01:03:21):
What's up, Anthony, Let's call me Stave for eminemity. All right,
well the company already, but go ahead, Steve, Yes, Yeah,
So my.

Speaker 3 (01:03:34):
Company does does HVAC work for Wake Kenny Public Schools?

Speaker 1 (01:03:40):
Oh Man rolling in it?

Speaker 3 (01:03:42):
Yeah, well well no, but we do their corporate office
that they least the building. It's again it's several well
it's it's four buildings ever in in Kerry, right. Yeah,
they've got brand new ACS there and the buildings. A
lot of times they are already.

Speaker 1 (01:04:00):
Hold on that's Wake County Schools headquarters over and carry.
Now I thought they were up on falls of news.

Speaker 3 (01:04:08):
I don't know if it's take quarters. I know there's
a okay, four buildings, then they're all they're all way
Wait County Goblent Schools got you, got you? Yeah, they
leased the building so they're not by Yeah, but again
they're leasing all that space. That money could be used
for fixing their conditions at schools.

Speaker 1 (01:04:25):
You know, I mean, there's got to be great for
got to be great for you, like people in your business.

Speaker 5 (01:04:32):
Man, people who own my business.

Speaker 1 (01:04:37):
Well, I understand, yes, one hundred. Let me ask you.
Let me ask you a question, Anthony. Like everything else,
a lot of people are of the opinion I got
about a minute that you know, the current crop of
acs are essentially built to break versus you know, old.

Speaker 2 (01:04:54):
Aces which have been around forever. Would you say that's accurate.

Speaker 3 (01:05:00):
Well, I think it's more well yeah, planned opts less
started with with Henry Ford. But yeah, it's uh. I
think it's just a matter of the build quality and
you know, uh, quality inspections have gone downhill, especially since COVID.
We've seen a large, a large slant since COVID. Yeah,

(01:05:24):
that the equipment's just even we're having problems with new equipment.
It's a it's a it's a problem.

Speaker 1 (01:05:31):
Yeah, just so I agree. Yeah, like you know, back
in there, and thank you for the call their Anthony, Uh,
glad to have you along. I am just sitting here
looking at the latest Mondami Audio Zamboni or whatever you
want to call him up in New York, and like
he's just trolling, man, he's just trolling. At this point,

(01:05:53):
so on DOMI decides to invoke a very famous quote
from Ronald Reagan, which I'm gonna play for you right now.
I'm sure you're familiar with it, but just a recap
here we go.

Speaker 7 (01:06:03):
I think you all know that I've always felt the
nine most terrifying words in the English language are I'm
from the government and I'm here to help.

Speaker 2 (01:06:13):
Okay, all right, right, that's pretty common.

Speaker 1 (01:06:15):
Most people know that. And I guess if you're so young,
you don't know that Reagan had just banger one liners
like the dude killed it back in the day. Good stuff.
I would, I would. I would especially encourage you to
see some of the one liners in debates that he
had where they're trying to hit him over his age.

(01:06:36):
Good stuff, one hundred percent. All right, So that just
sits out there. And of course, yesterday the mayor of
New York, who is held bent on I don't know,
having all tax revenue flee, decided he was going to
invoke those words, but kind of in the opposite and
he said that I.

Speaker 8 (01:06:55):
Cannot help but think of the words of our fortieth president,
Ronald Reagan said the nine most terrifying words in the
English language, or I'm from the government and I'm here
to help.

Speaker 1 (01:07:06):
Yes, he did, All right, So should we stop there
or do you have some Oh you gotta add some. Oh,
there's nine more seconds. Okay, it's a.

Speaker 2 (01:07:13):
Good quote, but I disagree.

Speaker 8 (01:07:15):
I think nine more terrifying words are actually I worked
all day and can't feed my family.

Speaker 1 (01:07:21):
Yeah, okay, all right, arguably, like, if we want to
get into a word off ross, what are you more
terrified of I've worked all day and can't feed my family?
Or Jason Voorhees is real and he's looking for you.

Speaker 2 (01:07:36):
Yeah, no, it's terrifying. Yeah, dude, those nine words, those
nine words.

Speaker 1 (01:07:40):
You're having a bad rest of your day. Man, what's
left of it? Not gonna worry and run? You can run,
It's not gonna matter. That was That was the thing
that always threw me about that. What were they implying
that he would like speed walk when he couldn't see
him or you know what I'm saying? That was like,
I don't know why. I'm like, kid brain. That never

(01:08:01):
clicked with me, and I'm.

Speaker 2 (01:08:02):
Like why is Yeah he didn't see that one. Yeah
he did seem to have some sort of powers there,
but I'm not sure. Did you see recently it was
making the rounds and social media. It was an AI version, obviously,
but it was Ernest goes to Camp Crystal Lake. They
were inserting Ernest into all of the old horror movies.
Oh no, did I miss?

Speaker 4 (01:08:21):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (01:08:21):
It was pretty good.

Speaker 1 (01:08:23):
Like old old horror movies.

Speaker 2 (01:08:25):
Yeah, they were used to sleep away Camp, all that
stuff like the Child's Play, the Freddy Krueger, the all
that kind of stuff. What happens Ernest is Jason picks
him up and he makes the face you know what
I mean, like yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:08:40):
What happened to Irne? Do we know?

Speaker 2 (01:08:41):
Uh? You know what?

Speaker 3 (01:08:43):
You know?

Speaker 1 (01:08:43):
No?

Speaker 2 (01:08:44):
I don't. I don't want to talk about it.

Speaker 1 (01:08:46):
Oh man, Oh I hate see that.

Speaker 9 (01:08:48):
No.

Speaker 1 (01:08:48):
I have not seen any of that as much as
I hate on ninety five percent of the AI that's
out there. Dude, there's some really good stuff being done.
Here's the thing. I'm plugged in, and I suspect a
lot of you are where, you know, I kind of
have to be clearly for this job. And I will
say this, I see everything that Spencer Pratt puts out

(01:09:12):
because it's like every day it's something new. They had
the Lego thing, which was pretty good. What did they
parody yesterday? I can't even remember what it was. And
it's to the point where I'm like, all right, there's
too much of this. But then I realize I'm not
who he's trying to hit. He's trying to hit people
that are passively online, right, because it's la whatever and

(01:09:35):
I got to tell you, most of it's not bad,
like to the point where if you only see a
little bit of it, you have to think it's pretty clever.
And whoever is handling that doing the AI, it's I
read some it's some guy who's with an agency in

(01:09:57):
Virginia right handles election memes for lack of a better word,
and the Spencer Pratt stuff is killing. I don't think
he'll win. And I know there's a lot of people
that are pumped up. They're like, ah, this could be
the year and if he does great whatever. I don't
think he will. It's still Los Angeles, but what an
absolute master class in coming up with And it doesn't

(01:10:21):
none of it feels throwaway like it feels well thought out,
well produced. Well I prompted, I guess is the way
you'd say it with AI right now. So even if
it seems overwhelming, if you're like chronically online, which to
some extent I am, I get it, but you have
to understand that's for people who might see one of

(01:10:43):
five that come out, So you just want to make
sure you hit him with something like I don't know,
I honestly I think and again I don't think he'll
win just because it's Los Angeles, and that's that's it's
a hurdle to overcome.

Speaker 2 (01:10:57):
I think there are a lot of people in our
generation that are absolutely shocked. I know one of them
of the Spencer face turn. Yeah, and knowing what we
knew of him, what around two thousand and three five,
whenever he was popular for being like the heel. He
was the villain on that real Yeah, I didn't.

Speaker 1 (01:11:13):
Even understand the context of the show, and I thought
the guy was a dude.

Speaker 2 (01:11:16):
This is like a Razor Ramone face turn, you know
what I mean, Like, is it Razor Ramone? Though I
don't know what character would be, but I'm saying, you
have a guy that was a big time heel who's
now a big face.

Speaker 1 (01:11:29):
So yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I'm contemplating it. I think
that's probably the best example there. So I don't know,
like even if this guy, here's the deal, even if
he loses, and again, if I had to guesstimate, I
think he would just because it's la but who knows.
I would be equally impressed if the guy wins, because

(01:11:50):
it would show you the level of suck that people
were dealing with out in California.

Speaker 2 (01:11:57):
But it's funny to see them try to attack him
because because of his history of who he was in
the show and his mastery of reality TV and he.

Speaker 1 (01:12:06):
And he's having none of it.

Speaker 2 (01:12:07):
Yeah, pushing buttons and knowing how people work in the
psychology of all of it. He's running circles around them
and making them look stupid. I feel like because of
his history and where he is now, he's like Baine
right where he's like I was bored. He was born
to do this, to run circles around them.

Speaker 1 (01:12:25):
Yeah, it's very.

Speaker 2 (01:12:28):
You know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:12:28):
Here's the other thing people don't realize. Southern California is
very leftist. Santa Barbara is not. And like he's getting
grief because his parents live up there. Whatever. You gotta
understand when you get north of La Oxnard, Uh, what's
There's Chatsworth, o High Ventura and then into Santa Barbara.

(01:12:51):
It's pretty red up there. And I point this out
because even if he doesn't win in La, he could
do a North Valley congressional seat or one of the
congressional seats leading up to Santa Barba. He probably win
the next time he ran.

Speaker 2 (01:13:06):
Did you see that smug journal just being taken apart
yesterday where they thought that they thought he had a gotcha.
They were like, oh, he's living in Santa Barbara.

Speaker 1 (01:13:15):
I saw TMZ doing then I saw the other one.

Speaker 2 (01:13:18):
Yeah, and he's like, yeah, I'm leaving at my mom's
house with my kids because my house burned down and
I can't rebuild it.

Speaker 1 (01:13:24):
Yeah. Yeah, dude, the whole thing, the whole thing is
so ugly because it's just it's like, it's all the
things that show you why. And I'm not saying again,
I don't know that much about Spencer Pratt. Baby, he's
a good guy, maybe he's not whatever. I'm just viewing
what I see now and I'm much more plugged in
than when he was going through his reality show days.

(01:13:45):
But it's exactly the reason why normal people go, I
don't want any of this. I don't want to run
because you all are so horrible. I don't want you
destroying my life. That being said, man, like I think
he's demonstrated that he could go. I hadn't win one
of these things, maybe not the mayor of LA but
like dudes, probably going to Congress. I believe that if

(01:14:08):
he doesn't win that I think he's going to congress
and he'll do it within two cycles probably.

Speaker 2 (01:14:14):
You see you see the Falling Down meme yesterday, Well
that was the that was the that was part of
the new video. Yeah yeah, I mean, you know falling
Michael Douglas Falling Down, you know that movie, and it
was him on like the movie thumbnail or cover. But
it's like his face on Michael Douglas's body, you know,

(01:14:34):
where the suit, the white suit with the tie and
the suitcase. You know, he's like, he's a guy who's
got nothing left to lose. He's pissed off, he's angry.

Speaker 1 (01:14:41):
What's your what's your favorite moment in that Douglas movie.
A lot of people would be like, it's when he's
the gangbangers.

Speaker 2 (01:14:46):
And the fi Yeah, yeah, the briefcase.

Speaker 1 (01:14:47):
Yeah, dude, that's great. I'm sorry for my money. It's
at the end of the movie with the construction workers
right where they're doing the road and he's trying to
get the guy to admit that there's nothing wrong with
the road, and then he's just like, all right, I'm
gonna fire, I'm gonna fire.

Speaker 2 (01:15:05):
I can I can relate to that. You should have
heard me ranting in the car this morning. There is
they have been doing construction on Atlantic between high Woods
and what is it holt in the road since COVID No, no,
free COVID No. But this is a new thing they've
been working on. It's the expansion beauty project of that

(01:15:27):
strip of road. WI No, this is this is the thing.
They put up a sign saying this is our new
project and it's been up since COVID they have I
you should have heard me screaming in the car this morning.
I am so pissed off and angry. Somebody is laundering money.
Somebody is getting a deal here. This strip of road,
this strip of road, not only have they been working

(01:15:49):
on it for four or five years, it feels that
way anyway. They they will strip it down. They'll make
it so the stupid manhole covers are sticking up that
you have to wave around or they're going to mess
around with your your tie and your suspension and everything.
And they'll break down the road right and you're like, oh,
they're fixing the road. They will fix it. They will
make the road perfectly level. They will put the lines

(01:16:10):
on the road with the stupid machine that paints the
lines on the road. The manhole covers will be level,
so these matter that.

Speaker 1 (01:16:15):
Lane, So there's three different lanes there.

Speaker 9 (01:16:17):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:17):
Yeah, they'll do that and you'll be driving down it
and you'll be like, wow, it's complete, it's fixed. It
looks great, it's smooth. They got NW medians here. And
then a weekend will pass. Oh, they'll drive back to work.
And then they've done this repeatedly twenty or thirty times.
The road suddenly is like it was at the very beginning.

(01:16:40):
They will crack open the road and start over from scratch.
And they've done this twenty or thirty times.

Speaker 1 (01:16:45):
Now.

Speaker 2 (01:16:46):
I swear every time the job is complete, they started
over so they can keep making money on this project.
It is pissing me off. I literally was Michael Douglasten
in the movie this morning, screaming, how many times are
you gonna finish the project? If I lived there, if
I had a house there, because there's houses there along
the side of the road. Yeah, they apparely get out. Yeah,

(01:17:06):
if I saw them repeatedly, the job is finished, everything
looks great, and so the next day they bring up
the tray and they crack open the road and start
over again. What is happening there? Why do you need
to continuously crack open the road and start the project
over over and over again. I mean anybody who's driven ahead.

Speaker 1 (01:17:22):
Because it's not a commute, but he's even going on
for half a decade years.

Speaker 2 (01:17:27):
Yeah, when is that project going to be complete? Why
is it taking so long? How come when it's done,
you keep cracking open the road and starting over from scratch.

Speaker 1 (01:17:34):
I feel like we're in the wrong business. That's it.
You want to get paid, that's what you do, man,
I I honestly has also also the uh you know,
they just had that shut over the weekend going past
like Western and whatnot over on four forty there. That's
been going on for what a decade?

Speaker 2 (01:17:52):
I swear, I know specifically the one Atlantic between you know,
the high Woods, and I think it's Hope Mill. Yeah,
somebody's making money there. They're like, this is I found
an infinite money glitch.

Speaker 1 (01:18:01):
I'm just gonna We're gonna add one more lane, right,
That was the whole thing. Werena had one more lane
and only on one side too? Yes?

Speaker 2 (01:18:09):
Yeah, And it was done, it was complete several times,
and they keep cracking open the road and starting over
from scratch. I don't know what is going on.

Speaker 1 (01:18:17):
Oh, somebody's got a beach house to pay.

Speaker 2 (01:18:19):
And now like every like ten feet there's a manhole
cover that's up get nine feet above, and you've got
to weave in and out and a messages with your
tires and then you hit it at o dark thirty
in the morning. Some mob, Yes, it happened this morning.
Some mob guys gonna hear this. Now, in charge of
that project, I'm probably dead. No no, no, no no, it's

(01:18:40):
uh no.

Speaker 1 (01:18:41):
Now that you brought publicity to it, now they're gonna
have to redo it again, right, I gotta get it right?

Speaker 2 (01:18:49):
Yeah, of course, got it.

Speaker 1 (01:18:52):
You know I first when they first started that project
on the remember when they were deviating the lane to
one side so they could fix all of it, So
basically it was two lanes and then everything was pushed
over on the right. Dude, they not only do they
have the man cover, manhole cover sert the man hole
was gone. And I remember hitting that the man hole

(01:19:12):
was gone, and I swear on an suv it's scraped
the underside. So like my theory is, because you know
that right above there is the automotive repair place that
we contract for the station right the fireplace up there. Dude,
I think they're in on it. I'm not going to
say their name because I'm onlite intending to accuse them. No,

(01:19:33):
this is like when I drove through. Remember I remember
when I told you I drove through West Virginia. Piedmont,
West Virginia. I still I will always remember the name
of this town. This is years ago when I was
living in Minnesota. Me and my roommate at the time, Mike,
were like, we went, we're gonna do the East Coast
baseball thing. So we drove from Minnesota. He has an
uncle lives in West Virginia, kind of near there, So

(01:19:55):
we drove from Minnesota to his house. And then the
next day we were driving a DC to go, you know,
watch a game there. And you have to drive through
the most rugged two lane mountain road, which is fine.
I love that, and you dip down this little town
called Piedmont, West Virginia, and it's a you know, it's

(01:20:15):
a two lane highway. It comes down the slope and
it's all like you know, super slope where the truckers
have like you know, bailout lanes. The whole thing, and
it is a destitute little town that you used to
have a coal mine. I don't know that it has
coal mine anymore. And I remember driving down the hill

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and get down into Piedmont and you go down into towns.
There's maybe five hundred people, and then there's a sharp
right twenty five miles an hour, and then that drives
you over a hump of a railroad track, and then
you do another left and then you dip out of town.
You're in and out in two minutes. I come down
that hill, I take that right, and right where the

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railroad tract is, there is an automotive repair shop. And
I swear to you, I swear, I swear to you.
On my mom there is a coal covered midget standing there.
There is a little person whatever you want to say,
and he is somehow covered in like it probably not cold.
He's working an automotive shop, but like it almost looks blackface.

(01:21:21):
And I'm sitting there and I'm looking at this dude
and all, and I'm not looking at the railroad tracks.
The railroad tracks are like a full foot sticking out
over the road. I hit that in the car and
it literally dented the oil pan and I realize they're
in on it, right, He's there to distract me when

(01:21:44):
the corner so I don't see the railroad track. Yeah,
I'm like, what a racket?

Speaker 9 (01:21:48):
What?

Speaker 2 (01:21:49):
I just wanted to stop and congratulate the guy, but
I was so poed over it.

Speaker 1 (01:21:52):
Man. Anyway, all right eight twenty three, hang on, Yeah,
there's just some really bad spots, you know, going over
to the Triad. Man. I was trying to explain this
to Ross just because he didn't get to take the
trips over there. Dude, if you're on the south Bypass
on like eighty five seventy three in the Triads south
of Greensboro, and you get off either on two twenty
or four to twenty one, right, so now you're headed north. Dude,

(01:22:16):
the moment you get onto those roads north, they have
like they have grade separation. And it's been that way
for I don't know when was Greensboro founded. Since then
it's it's it's really bad, man, And what's now. I
was gonna say it's funny, but it's probably not fine.
There's always a car in the breakdown line over there,
just sitting there with the little white thing attached to

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the window, and I just assumed they got absolutely raked
by the road. So the difference is I've just never
seen him trying to repair those. It just is what
it is. Uh, they're just trying to torture Ross on
his commute. All right, let me grab some calls here,
all right, hang on, Corey, we'll get to you in
a moment. Bobby, what's up?

Speaker 5 (01:22:58):
Oh hey, great thing.

Speaker 7 (01:23:00):
Uh. I was just telling Ross his timing is not
off a bit. I deliver food in Raleigh pretty much.

Speaker 4 (01:23:07):
Seven days a week.

Speaker 7 (01:23:08):
It's been at least five years on that stretch from
Atlantic there high Woods up, and I think pressures.

Speaker 3 (01:23:16):
Like that are why we're not allowed to have orbgs.

Speaker 1 (01:23:21):
It's been forever, man. Uh, it's just you know, Ross
has to drive it every day. And and he's like
and there was some issue with the initial contractor there.
I don't remember the whole story, but uh yeah, yeah,
I don't know are you driving how big a truck
are you driving through there? Because you know the other
thing there iss all the ups trucks come out right

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there at New Hope in Atlantic, so like now they're
shaking all the packages.

Speaker 10 (01:23:50):
So I don't know, Well, mine's just a little subru
so I've got a little easier to whip around the
manholes and stuff, but if I want, it's a little worse.

Speaker 5 (01:24:01):
You know, what kind of what kind of food your contacts.

Speaker 1 (01:24:05):
What kind of nobody listens to me? Are you kidding me?
Especially at a city level? What kind of food do
you deliver?

Speaker 3 (01:24:13):
Like uber and door dash the oh?

Speaker 1 (01:24:16):
All right, all right, I didn't know if you're driving
a truck through that. All right, Well that's a little
easier because yeah, you're right, you can get around there.

Speaker 2 (01:24:21):
So yeah, man, it's been a minute over there, so
who the hell knows? All right, Well, I just got
vindication on the phone. The guy could not go on
there for obvious reasons, but he called me up and
he said he was laughing hearing me ranting about this
because he works for the general contractor that's working on that, oh,
that project. And they said they were done with it.
Dude says they were done, were done, And they got

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a call that they had to go in and and
replace the rings that were around the manhole cover for
some reason, which I said they were The people working
on the road were assumed it was done. They were like,
it's done, and no, no, no, now you need to
replace the rings around the manhole covers and rip up
the entire road again and start over. And he has
no idea why. I honestly, I think it's just to

(01:25:04):
torture you. But if I'm telling you, if I lived
in one of those houses, that's like cause to move,
I'd move after five years.

Speaker 1 (01:25:12):
My other theory is they're doing it to torture that
woman who's got the Elizabeth Warren sign in her yard still,
because that's still right in there.

Speaker 2 (01:25:20):
Right, I don't know if it's been. I don't know.

Speaker 1 (01:25:23):
I mean, because that's that's south of New Hope, in
that little stretch, ye know, it's in that stretch. Yes, yeah, okay,
all right, Corey wants to talk about roads.

Speaker 2 (01:25:33):
Corey, what's up?

Speaker 4 (01:25:35):
Hey, Bud?

Speaker 9 (01:25:36):
I just call him to wish your happy birthday.

Speaker 1 (01:25:38):
It's not roads. You're not talking about roads here. You
guys got roads up where you live up there in
southern Virginia. Did you move up that way?

Speaker 9 (01:25:50):
I'm fifteen minutes away, But I mean we got some
dirt roads and some gravel roads.

Speaker 2 (01:25:55):
Okay, all right, all right, hey, you know speaking about
turning heel.

Speaker 9 (01:26:00):
Yeah, I'm curious to know why Dictator Trevor isn't listening
to the people, all right. I saw President Trumpet tweeted
out that today's CaCO Day show day.

Speaker 1 (01:26:10):
Yeah yeah, yeah, somebody sent me that in my email
and it doesn't look photoshopped at all. So that's good now,
not at all.

Speaker 9 (01:26:17):
Anyways, hope you have a great day.

Speaker 1 (01:26:19):
Well you know what, here's what you can do. Take
the day off.

Speaker 2 (01:26:22):
Man, right, yeah, yeah, it's okay.

Speaker 9 (01:26:29):
Well, Mike, I used to have a sixty five mile
one way commute for five years, so I work remote now,
so it's like having every day off.

Speaker 1 (01:26:37):
Okay, all right, that's we're working out for you. Is
your livestock also? Were rive or you're doing okay there?

Speaker 3 (01:26:45):
Oh yeah, yeah yeah yeah.

Speaker 9 (01:26:46):
The cow is the cow needs a girlfriend, so I
need to find a nice highland. But otherwise everything's good, all.

Speaker 1 (01:26:51):
Right, all right, enjoy your hobby farm. Thank you for
the birthday wishes, but you know, I admit nothing. All right,
have a.

Speaker 9 (01:26:59):
Good one there you go.

Speaker 2 (01:27:02):
All right, look at that Ross White letting drunk people
call the show this morning?

Speaker 1 (01:27:06):
The hell's going on?

Speaker 2 (01:27:09):
He told me he was with the city and yeah,
answer to my oh diddy, yeah what he told you.
I'm like, I don't know, man, you sounded like Corey.
He's like, no, this is Maury from h Yeah, okay,
all right, it's little suss. Not only do you have
to have to work today, but also we have a
meeting the Tuesday meeting.

Speaker 1 (01:27:26):
Yeah, why is that not canceled yet? What the hell's
going on? Dude? Is straight up a dictator A Long
Island High School has a record breaking twenty one valedictorians
tis the season. Jericho High School says that now here's
the thing. I because I don't know how I feel
about this used to be back in my day, Ross.

(01:27:46):
I don't know how it was up in New York there.
Four point zero was as good as you can get, right.
Where did you guys have it where you could get crazy?

Speaker 2 (01:27:54):
I think it was a four point oh?

Speaker 1 (01:27:55):
It was four point oh. And by the way, my
class rank was amazing until you realize there was only
eighty seven kids in my graduating class.

Speaker 2 (01:28:05):
Let's tell you look good. You're like, oh, top ten
class rank, look at you.

Speaker 1 (01:28:10):
That being said, I do have some questions here because
like they didn't expand it to where you can get
like five point zero and it gets crazy, but I
also understand how you use that to kind of like
pair down what everyone's doing. But you'll understand my question
here in a moment. So Jericho High School has so
many they can't make all they can't all make speeches

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at the upcoming June graduation, so they're all filming a
video and then they're just gonna splice this all together,
which makes sense, right. You don't want twenty one people
given fifteen bitt of speeches. You'd be there forever. That
being said, let me scroll down in this article here.

(01:28:53):
So they talked to a couple. The valedictorian excuse me,
I got hiccups. Now for some reason, it says here
we go. Jericho's valedictorians didn't take the easy route either,
and packed their school schedule with ap classes and extra curriculars.
I took Calculus BC, which was one of the most

(01:29:14):
hardest classes I've ever taken in high school, said valdictorian
Hanor Njeya. Okay, all right, and I look I get
it because I get people semi corrections on stuff.

Speaker 2 (01:29:27):
Listen, man, Calculus is an English.

Speaker 1 (01:29:31):
You understand what I'm going here, right, like I understand
I get words wrong, and then when people correct me,
then I spitefully keep doing it. That being said, if
you're being interviewed for the Hey, my high school has
twenty one valedictorians because we're all so smart. And your
quote is I took Calculus BC. That was one of

(01:29:51):
the most hardest classes I've ever taken. Can't we start
whittling this number down?

Speaker 2 (01:29:59):
Can't we?

Speaker 1 (01:30:00):
At that point, you're just like, ah, you're not one
of the twenty one anymore? What the hell is that
quote of the story? I took Calculus BC. That was
one of the most hardest classes I've ever taken. You're
out bro. The numbers twenty now numbers twenty. Yeah, you
sitting on the sidelines one of the most hardest classes

(01:30:22):
I've ever taked. What the hell are we doing? Man?

Speaker 2 (01:30:25):
The quote continues, I and I was a little bit
concerned about losing it this year, but I tried hard
and kept that average up. Did you try hard at
one of your most hardest classes?

Speaker 1 (01:30:37):
Did you like? I get the vibe, man. I was
not a bad mathematics student, but I remember when I
finally took statistics in college, I freaking hated it and
I never really hated any classes. So like, I get
I get it, but you can't say that honestly, you're
like you have dishonored your family.

Speaker 2 (01:30:57):
Brouh.

Speaker 1 (01:31:00):
Anyway, and I kind of feel like the school was
going for it too. They were trying to rake these
numbers just for the pub But anyway, all right, eight
forty four Race Stagic valdictorian of his class. He's here
with us. Dude, if you're valedictorian of the class and
you're quoted in a news article saying, here we go,
I took Calculus BC. It was one of the most

(01:31:23):
hardest classes I've ever taken. You're not valedictorian anymore?

Speaker 2 (01:31:27):
Right for the English? Yes, yeah, yeah, you're on top
of the class anymore.

Speaker 6 (01:31:35):
No, regular No, I mean everyday conversation. I don't think
everybody talks like you know what I mean.

Speaker 1 (01:31:42):
He's being interviewed by the New York Post. Okay, you're
being interviewed by a news outlet, brom trying to give
the guy brought it up. So yeah, yeah, I get it.
I get it all right. And by the way, I
don't like how competitive you're recorded four this morning. I
feel like you're going for the record I did. Yeah, yeah, no,

(01:32:06):
maybe I got a little cocky of it too.

Speaker 2 (01:32:08):
I was. I was, I'm.

Speaker 1 (01:32:10):
Gonna roast these bastards.

Speaker 6 (01:32:12):
I am, and I did, and today I'll get burned.
So yeah, so a little mid nineties, try it to
try and go, lots of sunshine, maybe some records again
not as confident maybe as yesterday. And then we'll see
the change start oozing in over the next several days. Yeah,

(01:32:32):
slow process is still tomorrow similar to today, a little bit nineties.
And then by Thursday Friday, rain chances jumping way up,
especially in the second part.

Speaker 1 (01:32:41):
Of the day.

Speaker 6 (01:32:41):
We'll keep us in the upper eighties to maybe ninety
degrees Thursday, then only near eighty Friday, the coolest day
the next to seven, or right through the Memorial Day holiday,
which the entire weekend will feature some scattered showers and thunderstorms.
So just have a plan, you're ahead to the beaches,
you're gonna be out in about scattered storms. They'll be

(01:33:02):
dry periods mixed in, but decent chances rain each day,
as will be in the little bit eighties.

Speaker 1 (01:33:07):
All right, So you got you got daughters right, you
got too talked about this, don't you let your sixteen
year old daughter get married. Nope, you saw this story, right, No,
I just so you know who Tyson Fury is, the boxer,
very well known boxer. I do not so his sixteen
year old daughter. They had this huge, like grandiose Kardashian
wedding for his sixteen year old and he's just a

(01:33:29):
proud papa. And I'm like, I don't care how much
you like the kid. You let your sixteen year old
daughter get married.

Speaker 6 (01:33:36):
Nope, I'm not letting my twenty six year old or
twenty three or thirty three.

Speaker 2 (01:33:40):
No, You're going to have to let that go eventually.

Speaker 3 (01:33:43):
I know.

Speaker 1 (01:33:43):
I'll get over it. Your wife went, grandkids, yes, yeah, see, yeah,
you're in it. I know. All right, yeah, but sixteen's crazy.
All right, We'll let you go have a good rest
of your day boiling people. All right, thanks, and we'll
come back with Bloomberg News next.

Speaker 2 (01:34:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 11 (01:34:00):
You know how there have been all these job cuts
that Facebook parent met. I mean, they've just cut tens
of thousands of jobs. I don't know, I couldn't even count.
But every time we turn around, there's another ten thousand
meaning cut. Now they're moving seven thousand more workers into
AI rolls ahead of more job cuts, part of a
broad restructuring. They're moving them into this art official intelligence

(01:34:23):
thing as they cut staff later in the week as
part of an effort to improve efficiency and offset their
investments in AI. Just a lot of dis you see.

Speaker 1 (01:34:34):
Did you see they're also telling them not to come
to work today so they can do the cuts. Did
you see that part?

Speaker 11 (01:34:39):
Well, I kind of appreciate that. I mean, if you
were if one we're about to be laid off, like
you really want to, you know.

Speaker 1 (01:34:45):
Just being in this industry where we've all sat through it,
you know what I'm saying.

Speaker 11 (01:34:49):
Yeah, Or or in the Bay Area where you you
know it takes two and a half hours to commute
to work and then you're like, oh man, what did
I just drive two and a half hours there for
this to get it? But I mean, it's not a
good feeling, right no matter what. And I feel for people.
Electric vehicle owners could be about to be zapped. Casey,

(01:35:11):
there's this massive transportation bill made public by House lawmakers.
It would impose these new fees on evs one hundred
and thirty bucks that'll rise to one hundred and fifty
dollars every two years and then just keep going up.
There will be fees for hybrid vehicle owners as well.
Lawmakers say the fee is needed to make sure all
highway users pay their fair share, you know, not just

(01:35:32):
those who pay the gas tax. Berkeley, California, is now
requiring home sellers to make green upgrades as a condition
of sale. They've got this score now that measures just
how you know, ecologically sound a home is. They're rating them.
And one interesting thing is this ordinance is actually starting

(01:35:53):
to change the dynamics of the market, with those with
these hired bestsell scores as they're called, being seen as
move in ready, and buyers are bidding more for those homes.
So it works this way, either the seller has to
make the upgrade or the buyer has to pledge to
make the upgrade within two years of purchase. Carvana is
making other dealers angry with its new plans. You know,

(01:36:15):
they're known for that used car vending machine, right, but
now they're starting to unnerve some dealerships. According to the
Wall Street Journal, they're selling new cars. They've taken over
this dealership near Phoenix, and they've already turned this into
the nation's top selling dealer of Chrysler's Dodge, Jeeps and Rams.
Chrysler is the only one that's doing that stillantis, I

(01:36:36):
should say, but others might sign on, and that just
has a lot of dealers nervous. There's some nervousness on
Wall Street as well. Dell futures down eighty two s
and p futures down twenty four. Nasdaq especially hard hit.
It's down one hundred and seventy eight points right now.
And the Mahjong Revolution case he is meeting the spa weekend.
You know how more people are playing Majong is a fun,

(01:36:58):
screen free social outlet. TikTok is really fanning the winds.
You might say, well, now the bonus title Majong retreats
and events are being offered by tour operators luxury hotels
and spas, and it'll set you back a few thousand
dollars per night for a Mahjong retreat. I mean, I

(01:37:18):
admit they're blending it in with other things like gentle yoga,
sound baths and meditation. But if you're trying to relax,
is it relaxing to go spend a few thousand dollars
a night? Although it's good for your health, good for
neural you know, increased neural plasticity, fighting depression and dementia.
And Majong's great, but that's a pretty hefty price tag there.

Speaker 1 (01:37:43):
You've learned a weird stuff.

Speaker 11 (01:37:44):
Oh, Majong is great though. Have you ever played?

Speaker 1 (01:37:47):
Oh yeah, no, no no, And I played digitally. I
have it on my phone.

Speaker 11 (01:37:50):
Uh huh. I like this sound of like and the
clanking of the actual touching the actual tiles.

Speaker 1 (01:37:58):
Yeah, that's all right, Denise, I canna leave it there
up against the clock, but thank you very much, appreciate it.
Have a good rest of your day, Okay, I go,
Denise Pelgrene Bloomberg News. Just looking at an update here
on all things ebola. So now they're reporting that the
number of deaths in the Congo has surpassed a hundred ross.

(01:38:21):
What do you think they're going to try to make
the pandemic of the season as we near the election.

Speaker 2 (01:38:26):
Haunt a virus or ebola? If you had to choose,
I think a bowl of spreads too fast to really
be a pandemic, right, so deadly right?

Speaker 1 (01:38:35):
But I also remember when they had the one case
in Dallas, right, and then everyone freaked out. Remember when
they tried to capture the nurse up in Maine.

Speaker 2 (01:38:42):
Who had been I mean, don't get me wrong, it's
completely terrifying and if you get it, you're probably going
to die.

Speaker 1 (01:38:47):
But well, first you bleed out of your eyes, so
you got that going for you.